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A Greater Picture
08:50
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The world’s a stage and life’s a play and
I and you are but decay
Grandeur left our fragrant souls
As life left the rotting rose
Lullabies and crackling clouds
Closing shafts and shrieking shrouds
Pantomimes await us all
And the rains will wet this soul
But nonetheless, the seed of youth
‘tis what gives life to the truth
once more
Tick-tock, tick-tock, chimes are swinging
Bristling in the frozen air and
All the passion of possession
Lures us down in coffins pale and
Pantomimes await us all
Our passion outgrows the Sun, day by day
But not one moment do we stop, askéth by reason
Glorifying doom, so spurious
We have the passion to possess oblivion
And now we march all hand in hand
Let them face this one last stand
But can we turn the passion into light (life)
once more?
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Mortua Est
04:47
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Făclie de veghe pe umezi morminte
Un sunet de clopot în orele sfinte
Un vis ce își moaie aripa-n amar
Astfel ai trecut de-al lumii hotar
Trecut-ai când ceru-i câmpie senină
Cu râuri de lapte și flori de lumină
Când torsul se-aude pe-al vrăjilor caier
Argint e pe ape, și aur în aer
Și-ntreb al meu suflet, rănit de-ndoială
De ce-ai murit, înger cu fața cea pală?
N-ai fost tu jună, n-ai fost tu frumoasă?
Te-ai dus spre a stinge o stea radioasă?
Se poate ca bolta de sus să se spargă
Să cadă nimicul cu noaptea lui largă
O, moartea-i un chaos, o mare de stele
Când viața-i o baltă de vise rebele
O, moartea-i un secol cu sori înflorit
Când viața-i un basmu’, pustiu și urât
La ce?... Oare totul nu e nebunie?
Au moartea ta, înger, de ce fu sa fie?
De e sens într-asta, e-ntors și ateu
Pe palida-ți frunte nu-i scris Dumnezeu
Văd vise-ntrupate gonind după vise
Pân’ dau în morminte ce-așteaptă deschise
Și nu știu durerea-mi în ce să o sting
Să râd ca nebunii?
Să-i blestem sau să-i plâng?
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Slept you with the dormant muse?
Did you taste her starry juice?
Clung to you, my son, her wife
For she played her perfect fife
A siren, a witch, a spawn of thy hell
Silverbreeze sang your soul for to sell
Crescent moons and towering skies
Memories left the man she kissed
The clouds will dance on the Seven Seas
Boiling in the dusty mist
You will never rip this lace
Be entwined forevermore!
A slave of Rain, of Stream and Sea
In this life you’ll always be
Never too late to come back home
Your head is spinning but you can’t let go
Never too early to give up the game
Never again will you be the same
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Solstice
06:07
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Once upon a time there was a heart
Innocent and beautiful, like art
She’ll have flown above the night
with the stars
Unresolved and unanswered desire
Used to roam behind the walls of fire
But now, all that you can find is dust and demise
A change beyond the golden throne
A shiver to the bone
Fortune made of stone
A child so alone
‘tween the lines
there’s hope to bear again (hope dies last)
One by one, the synergies are cast
But in the end, nothing can
outlive the Father, and we all are
A change
Beyond the silver spheres
Cold music to my ears
Passing with the years
I’m God and I’m in tears
Chase the heart to the end of time
And when she’ll have smiled
winter come may in peace
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Evenfall
03:53
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The lights are out, the doors are shut
There’s no way in this final cut
In times of war, in enmity
Avenge we shall this felony
The Evenfall gave birth to gall
They took it all
A hero of worlds long gone by
No erasing, but ordaining:
We want the truth
The lights of the world are on you
No more lies, your time has come
Your pride and spite will be your fall
The pain exists, the graves are laid
Your stench will fill the gruesome air
Without pity! Show no mercy!
We want the truth
The lights of the world are on you
You will fall by this hand
Your downfall, once and for all
Blood is shed, the price is high
It’s your turn: evenfall for one last night
“We’re not numbers,
we are free, we are so alive”
We never gave in
We will not die tonight
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1. Cathartic Comatose
Life lived in ruins, love’s grim undoings
Mother, you were always so right
Years passing by me, fears lurk inside me
Father, I am lost, bring me home!
Help me, help me find my way
Save me, hide me from the pain
Reach out, free me
Help me chase away the Time
There shall come a day when I’ll run away
My Quest may only end when I’m no more
Redamancy, sour epiphany
I’ll leave you as prey to the light!
Help me, bring about that day
Save me, hide me from the pain
Don’t wait, I’m ready
Reach out for me
“Mortal, there shall be no escape”
And when the lights go down
When the sun is set
Will you reach for me?
I’ll open up
I’ll take my chance
Don’t let me rot!
Don’t punish me!
2. Soliloquy
“And it’s haunting me, this little Eden that I’ve found. I thought I could be close to the end of the tunnel but the light only got dimmer, my restlessness becoming second nature. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
What have I done wrong, you ask. One day I will find out, one day when my Quest shall reach its end and the one-way road to forsakenness will turn into Redamancy. I do long for that, and in Sequences, and as you might’ve guessed, I cannot control the Sequences.
The Mother and the Father have departed. This lurid Eden I found is now all that remains and what remains of me is all but empty canvas akin to naked sheets of music. Where has the music gone? Did Time steal it as well? Just as it stole my dreams, I suppose. Just as it stole you from me.
But in the midst of chaos and bedlam, reveries have struck me. And in this cathartic comatose which swept me beyond daydreaming I have seen reason and I have tasted belief. The clock is ticking but the world is moving – death is luring but life is willing to resist.
Through Still Life we shall uncover the past, and creations will then become immortal. And with them we will last, beyond the Father’s domain, in the garden where no poisoned song may be heard calling with the siren’s sensuous tongue.
All we need is one spark – a moment, if you will. Once I hold on to this moment, never will I let go. The circle will have been completed – the poet and the play will have been readied – Kronos will have fallen.
Know that I did not yet reach the gates at the end of this orchard of Time, but nonetheless I have found something of much greater value:
I have reached the way. I have found myself.”
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Sequences of Longing
03:43
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Redamancy
05:33
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Would you love a toy soldier
Running on your fields?
A silent bark in nothingness
Scout the skies for the above
Search for sugar in her cove
A silent bark in nothingness
Crying river’s loneliness
Redeem your thoughts, December’s gone
Tower clouds, sour storms will come
Silence weeps with nothingness
Riverbeds snow loneliness
‘Tout de suite!’
The world would flow
Bleeding for Redamancy
A one-way road to bigotry
Beauty swept from memory
Crafted shades, redundancy
Would you
Would you love soldiers from afar?
Should I
Should I weight the spaces in your eyes?
Come now, come to me
Frail one, don’t you see?
Bleed for Redamancy
Bleed for and love me!
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Carpe Diem
02:07
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“I am the hope and I am the light
All that is moment, all that is right
I am the ‘here’, I am the ‘now’
I am a changer
There is more to life, more than meets the eye
There is more than sand, more than a mist
Once you will find love and light, faith and peace
Hope for eternity, beneath the clouds amiss
All your thoughts shall clear, all resolve will rise
I’ll never let you down”
Magic the ways of loners
Poetry in their hearts
For when the moment of death comes to silence
The silent takes one last breath
These are the ways of artists
Future that’s in your eyes
For when the moment has come
You’ll remember all that we have done
“Keep inside the Key of Time
In your soul, in your mind
Hold inside this Key of Time
In your soul, in your mind
It will guide through the night”
Magic the ways of loners - poetry in their hearts
For when last moments of breath crown the silence
He happily kisses death
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The Vixen
07:29
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Dolls and soldiers, close your eyes
Let me disappear
Turn around and face the night
Shudder before fear
Pour out your gruesome ooze
Scorpion from the sky
Tear out my lonely heart
I dare you to try
I have lost myself into your gaze
I’ve rolled my dice, I’ve played my cards
Paralytic and embraced
My demons I’ve left disgraced
“I can give you castles
I can give you life
I can yield you treasures
I can build you hope inside
I can say ‘I love you’
Should I die within the pain
Let me contemplate you
Dwell inside your skin
Take me to our endings
Far away from pain
Take us to your heavens
Out from reach of sin
Carry me forever
On to endless blue
As I can give you life
And say that I love you”
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Give me the uncanny
Worshipping the weary
Rest your soul, don’t worry
Love is just their fantasy
Inside snow is melting
Outside rain is shifting
Still life, washed by tearing
Our hearts out and singing
Take my hand and carry
Me across your oceans
Keep me in your mind
Forever entwined
And now, as life comes still
Should I contemplate your scars?
Why are we forced to always become
what we hate the most?
Why can’t we turn the tide around?
Forgive, always forgive
Deceive, the Father deceive
Through still life we uncover the past
And creations immortal become
And we, immortal with them, we last
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Who are you, dismal reflection?
A dirge, a spire, a life - a dreamless night
Father Time, faulty Time
Tentacles of love and hate
Sons of strife, of plague and death
Seduced us all in search for fate
I know you, rootless contraption
Imprisoned in my cell, captured in creation
Pale light of the moon, poured into my arms
To Sol I write as Jupiter is conceived
Burn me away
With the cloth of the Universe
As the veil of my tide
Hold on to the passion
Hold on to the hope
Hold on to the artist
As his worlds unfold
“Our journey meets its end
we are one step away from – ironically – intangible resolution
We are forever locked in this temporal vortex,
unable to move outside, yet able to breathe
Asphyxiation is at hand for the ones who do not embrace the act of creation
The Father disdains. The Father consumes. The Father destroys.”
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Symphress Cluj Napoca, Romania
Symphress is a symphonic progressive rock/metal band from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since 2015, they've enchanted audiences with their eclectic sound, blending classic prog rock with symphonic elements. Their debut album, "Father Time – Part I", released in 2023, showcased their versatility and creativity. With the recent release of "Pseudo", Symphress continues to push boundaries and redefine metal. ... more
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